Legendary Brooklyn producer and DJ Easy Mo Bee recently appeared on the latest episode of Mass Appeal's Rhythm Roulette. In the show's tradition, the blindfolded beatmaker picked three random records from the shelves at L.A.'s Amoeba Records and prepared to create his beat.

"Herbie Mann, that's my dude," he said as he flipped through his findings. "I made a mean beat off of Herbie Mann recently too, but I can't tell you which album." The superproducer, who has worked with The Notorious B.I.G., 2Pac, Big Daddy Kane and Miles Davis, also picked a Freddie Mitchell album as well as Sophisticated Soul by The Marvelettes.

As he listens to Freddy Mitchell, he drops a few jewels concerning digging for samples.

"A lotta cats don't know, but when you're diggin' in the store lookin' for records, the cover can be interesting," he explained. "Sometimes that can give you a little introspective of what the album is gonna be like, but more so the personnel and who is playing on the album."

Mo Bee samples his selections into the Rossum SP1200 and gives props to Dave Rossum at Rossum Electro for the newly updated version of the legendary sampler and sequencer. After finding nothing usable on the Freddie Mitchell album (and snatching drums from The Marvelettes), Mo Bee creates a boom-bap beat using the Herbie Mann album. Watching Easy Mo Bee work is a master class in sample based production.

Check out the clip above.